Why Your Leadership Development is Failing the Mission

HR & Strategy: The Missing Link in Your Growth Plan

Expert Strategic Planning: Why “Best Practices” Aren’t Enough

The Birth of a Strategic Plan: A 9-Month Journey to a 10-Year Vision

The HR Power Partnership: Moving from Compliance to Catalyst

Dismantling Hidden Taxes on Leadership 🛠️

🏛️ The Benevolent Executive: The Antidote to Toxic Silence

Leadership: Silence is Not a Strategy 🚫

Making Values Mean Something — The Bridge Between Behaviour and Profit

The Inner Circle: Auditing Your Rhythms for a Frictionless 2026

The Foundation of Alignment: Why Your “Clean Slate” Starts with Safety

19 business days are lost to mental health absences – That is a leadership crisis.

The Manager Trap: 4 Critical Leadership Red Flags Hiding in Employee Reviews

Stop Blaming ‘Psychological Safety’—Start Leading: Tackle Systemic and Personal Failures in Your Senior Team.

Prisoners, Vacationers and the Willing: Making Training Something People Actually Want to Do

The Patch of Grass: Why Remembrance Day Changed for Me

Reframing Leadership: Moving Beyond the Battle of Wills

Reflections on Leadership: Lessons from the Back Porch of Life

The Tyranny Of Servant Leadership – 5 Things You Need To Do To Free Yourself

Kale & Servant Leadership – 3 tips for you to serve through listening

Does Your Company’s Mission Statement Actually Matter? The Answer May Surprise You

The Birth of a Strategic Plan: A Nine-Month Journey

Beyond Imposter Syndrome: The 50% Rule and The Traps of New Leadership

Forget the Dashboard: Why Your Team Needs an Old Approach, Not a New Tool

Hear Steve tell the story of managing his worst project … EVER!

From Breakdown to Breakthrough – How Steve Helped Rebuild a School’s Culture and a Leader’s Confidence

Driving Connection – How Steve Helped Unite a Scattered, Diverse Team: A CASE STUDY

Beyond Command & Control: How Vulnerability Unlocks Your Team’s True Potential

Fathers Day, The Hardy Boys and a First Leadership Lesson

Lead Through the Fire: 3 Core Principles for Crisis Leadership

Unlock Understanding: 5 Questions to Navigate Strong Disagreements

7 Check Up Questions To Diagnose Your Team

Leading Through the Unpredictable: Embracing Courage in a Time of Change

More Than Just Survival: Why Any Business, Regardless of Size, Needs a Strategic Plan

The Unintended Compass: When Leadership Values Emerge by Accident

Are You ‘Off Message’? How Misaligned Communication Kills Execution

The Precursor to Success? – 4 Actions To Drive Leadership Team Accountability

Closing the Accountability Gap: Practical Steps for Real Results

What is worse than being a boss? Being a bridesmaid – 3 Leadership Hacks

Embracing the Unknown: Navigating Difficult Conversations

How Do You Want People to View Your Advice?

The Indispensable Chain: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Disaster Response

Global Leadership Forecast 2025 – Why would anyone aspire to lead in today’s environment?

As Curious Leaders, What Are The Right The Questions to Ask

6 Questions To Bring Clarity to Your First Team!

In 2025, Break Routine and Unleash Creativity to Fuel Innovation

Lessons From The Buddha … Ask ‘Why’ 5 Times

Employee Holiday Recognition Can Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

8 Steps To Improvement For Leaders And How To Develop Them

‘The Times They Are A’ Changin’ … 9 Questions To Check If Your Team Is Ready

Culture & Connection Resource List

10 Signs You Have A Scary Boss

LEADING THROUGH SCARY TIMES

How to Motivate People When Pay is Off the Table

Can you be friends with people you might have to fire?

You – And Only You – Are Responsible For the Engagement & the Culture of our Organization

The 7 Step Coaching Process

20 Tips To Avoid The 40% Failure Rate When Onboarding A New Leader

5 Steps To Calming The Waters When A New Boss Enters The Pool

Why 75 Is The Single Most Important Number You Will Ever Need To Lead

In the Citizen’s Interest: A Dynamic Talk with Steve Armstrong

3 Steps To Building Trust So It’s Ready When Your Team Needs It

The 7 Hidden Reasons Your Employees Leave You

3 Things You Need To Do So Your First 90-days Aren’t Your Last Days

High Performance is not the same as High Potential

6 Hiring Mistakes That Can Cost You a Fortune

5 Actions To Drive Alignment and Increase in Profit – And Who Doesn’t Want More Profit

Does Your Team Have an Accountability Problem?

Don’t Require People To Have Solutions When They Bring You Their Problems – What To Do Instead

Meetings – The Linchpin of Organizational Health

There Is No Value In A Conversation That Starts With ‘You Idiot’ – Even If You Only Say It Under Your Breath.

Food Glorious Food – The Most Underrated Of All Leadership Tools

Clarity thru the Grace of Pauses And The Hardy Boys

4 Things A Punk Rock Band – The Clash – Taught Me About Dealing With A Horrible Boss

World Events & Trying To Give Your People Some Peace

The 6 Secret T’s To Know What To Delegate

Being A Drunk – You Can’t Change Into Being A Better Leader If It Is Counter To Your Values

The Power Of Modelling When Communicating As A Leader

Stop rewarding people based on Performance; start Promoting Potential.

Performance Management Fails And 6 Steps You Can Use To Fix It

Theirs is but to do or die – Actions to Ensure Honesty When Speaking Truth To Power

What kind of leader are you? Do you want the final say or are you all about democracy? Take our quiz to find out …

Can You Name the 9 Essential Qualities of a Leader?

I wasted $20,000 – The 3 Questions you should asked before you waste money, time and people.

Coloured-pencils, Nail-polish & How You Can Get Dedicated Employees

Leading Through Trauma

4 tips to Keep it Together And Avoid Crying at Work

Want To Lose Your Job … Manage Your Boss! Learn the 6 Actions To Partner With Them Instead

Does your organization have a culture that expects reports or results?

27 Powerful Open-Ended Leadership Questions

8 Tips On How You Can Avoid My 4:00AM Regrets

Be A Better Leader By Asking Better Questions – Get Your Own 51 Powerful Questions

Why would anyone follow you if they don’t believe you have the courage?

The Best New Year Letter An Employee Could Ever Write You

The Most Important Leadership Competency

Do You Have A Brilliant Jerk In Your Workplace?

7 Questions To Prevent Fear Of Leadership Failure

Get rid of Top-Down Supervision

Three 3-minute articles to discuss with your team to create a lifetime of positive change (for everyone).

Do You Want to Improve Your Leadership Experience? STOP Solving Problems!

To Be a Better Leader: ‘Unlearning’ Is More Important Than ‘Learning’

How to create Leaders, not Followers

The secret to creating Leaders throughout your organisation

How to Become a Better Leader By Asking Better Questions

Ambition, Power and Leadership Are Not Dirty Words

What Is Heck Is Organizational Health? 10 Questions Answered by Steve

The 6 Plates You Have To Spin For Your Success As A CEO

I’ll Do Anything For You But I Won’t Do That!

80% Of Projects Fail Because Of ‘People’ Issues … Here Are 6 Things You Can Do To Reduce That Risk

Six Strategies to Connect with Empathy, But Lead with Compassion

5 Ways To Encourage Meeting Participation

6 Tips to Speak Confidently in Meetings (Even When You’re A Bit Scared)

A Hero, The Colours, A Badge: Leading With Courage

I participated in racism because I didn’t say anything. How you can be courageous enough to say something.

5 Behaviours at the Heart of a Great Team

Alan Mulally Was Losing $17B A Year, Yet Every Management Dashboard Showed Green Lights – Learn How He Changed Accountability At Ford

ACT, BE, DO: What Skills are Needed for Leadership Nirvana?

What is Stopping Your Leadership Development Program?

Leader’s Brief: Your HR Team Might Think Your Leadership Competencies Suck – 3 Actions To Fix That

Humble, Hungry, and Smart – Get Your Hiring Interview Guide

How To Stop a Work Culture of Harassment (Part 1 of 3)

Alerts, Rules and BLUF’ing – 3 Actions You Can Use To Save Gazillions!

The #1 Secret & 4 tips You Need To Know To Delegate

Is Your Leadership Team Too Large? Steps For You To Right-Size It!

Consensus May Not Be A Dirty Word, But It Is A Lazy Leadership Word

Trust & Chance: 2 Things You Need for Leading in a Crisis

Why I think Mental Health Initiatives are missing an important point

Micromanagement: Are You Guilty?

Motivation Sins: Get Off Of The Naughty Boss List

5 Steps You Can Use To Build a “First Team” Mindset

Millennials & Beyond: Developing Your High-Potential Employees

Rethink Your Time Investment: Are You Spending 80% of it on the Wrong 20%?

Money In Your Pocket – What Happens When You ‘Bump’ Into One Trauma Too Many

You Can Take The First Step To Build a First Team

7 Steps To Leading in A Crisis: Don’t Be an Ass

4 Actions To Ensure That Your Leadership Adheres To The ‘First Team’ Model

Recognition & Corrective Action: How Do You Measure Up?

Be The CRO – 2 Ways to Communicate with Clarity

4 Things You Need To Do Before The Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming”

NOW Is Exactly The Time To Invest In Identifying Your Next Generation of Leaders

Curiosity Killed The Cat, But It May Help You Survive As A Leader

Moral Courage: The Most Important Leadership Characteristic

The Beast, Fort McMurray & Leadership: 5 Actions You Need To Lead

8 Actions To Assess and Lead An Inherited Team

Improve Your Conversations By Not Talking – 3 Tips You Can Start Using Today

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – 5 Skills To Go Further

How One Word Can Damage Workplace Culture

Three Things to Remember on Your First Day as a Leader

Micromanaging Is A Good Thing

3 Reasons Your Team Misses Their Deadlines & What to Do About It

Manage Competing Priorities!

A Poor Performer Costs Money, But If You Like Them It Will Cost You $76,500* – Two Approaches To Cut That Cost

10 Question You’ll Hear When There is Conflict Between the Board & The Executive Director. And 20 Things That Can Be Done to Address It.

The High Cost of Poor Leadership

Should A Servant Leader Ever Fire Someone? Yes! – And Here’s How & Why

The 4 F’s (And @#$% isn’t one) of dealing with a boss with low EI

Leader’s Brief – 4 Questions To Help You Lead Through Rapid-growth

Why You Are Preventing Your Own Success? – 3 Actions To Get Out of Your Own Way

Sometimes You Have To Shoot The Planners & Start! 4 Steps To Planning Strategy

7 Scripts To Say No With Respect

5 Secrets To Avoid A First-Time Manager’s Worst Mistakes

4 Tactics You Can Use To Lead People Who Know More than You Do

How To Avoid Screwing An Employee Over When Denying A Promotion

So, You Got Screwed Over – 9 Ways To Handle Being Denied A Promotion

13 Actions to Stay Human and Not Be a Creepy Boss in a #MeToo World

Can leadership kill?

3 Project Management Lies: And none are I’m from the government and I’m here to help

9 Questions To Evaluate Your Organization’s Readiness For Change

5 Questions You Should Ask Your Team Members Every Month

The One Advantage You Need To Lead Out Of Troubled Times

The Essential Leadership Skills Needed To Catapult Your Career

When Good People Make Bad Decisions & Why ‘WHY’ Can Stop Them

7 Simple Shifts – Your Checklist To Being A Better Leader

6 Things You Can Do To Show You Care For Your Employees

5 Steps To Leading When You Have 100% of the Responsibility But No Authority

A Crime and Two Sins – How To Stop A Culture Of Harassment Dead In its Tracks (Part 3)

You Can Stop A Culture Of Harassment (Part 2) – 3 Actions That Build Trust & A Safe Harbour

4 Leadership Actions You Need To Survive A Crisis A Hero!

Don’t Eff It Up – Talking To Employees When The Economy Sucks

Forget Servant Leadership – 4 Things You Need to Do To Pull Up Your Big Boss Pants & Lead!

Boy I Don’t Like that SOB in Accounting – 5 ways to Manage That Guy You Can’t Stand!

People Pleasing Leaders & Soup Sandwiches – 5 messes you make when you try to make everyone happy.

Read my thoughts on Trust … They can’t kill me … it’s against the rules!